{"id":2685,"date":"2017-12-01T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2017-12-01T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:09:34","slug":"sidekick-aperture-poetry-advent-calendar-day-one-andrea-tallarita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2017\/12\/sidekick-aperture-poetry-advent-calendar-day-one-andrea-tallarita.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day One &#8211; Andrea Tallarita"},"content":{"rendered":"Happy Advent, one and all! This year, we put out a call for Aperture poems to light up the old Sidekick Calendar.<br><br>\r\n\r\nThe Aperture Poem is a form invented by the poet <strong>James Midgley<\/strong> for his &#8216;Pinhole&#8217; sequence. The form\u00a0places a window-shaped frame on an existing text, to show us only a fragment, as if we are passing by a house, eavesdropping on a conversation or sat in the restricted access seats at the theatre.<br><br>\r\n\r\nThe results have been wonderful, and we can&#8217;t wait to fling wide the window and show you the splendid pieces we chose.<br><br>\r\n\r\nBut wait we must! One day at a time, folks!<br><br>\r\n\r\nTo kick off with, it&#8217;s a fantastic piece by our favourite Roman\u00a0 Senator,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marjacq.com\/andrea-tallarita.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Tallarita<\/a><\/strong>. Without further nonsense, <a href=\"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/adventcalendar\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here&#8217;s Day One<\/strong><\/a>! Can you guess the text at which we&#8217;re sneaking a peek?<br><br>\r\n\r\nPS: We will also be illustrating each post with a copyright-free window cat, because we can.<br><br>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2686\" src=\"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-250x377.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-400x604.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-450x679.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1-600x906.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/catadvent1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Advent, one and all! This year, we put out a call for Aperture poems to light up the old Sidekick Calendar. The Aperture Poem is a form invented by the poet James Midgley for his &#8216;Pinhole&#8217; sequence. The form\u00a0places a window-shaped frame on an existing text, to show us only a fragment, as if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2017\/12\/sidekick-aperture-poetry-advent-calendar-day-one-andrea-tallarita.html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sidekick Aperture Poetry Advent Calendar Day One &#8211; Andrea Tallarita&#8221;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,770],"tags":[67,771,772,114],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent-calendar","category-aperture-poems","tag-advent-calendar","tag-andrea-tallarita","tag-aperture-poems","tag-james-midgley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}